While waiting for their big breaks, two proper L.A. dreamers, a suavely- charming, soft-spoken jazz pianist and a brilliant, vivacious playwright, attempt to reconcile aspirations and relationship in a magical old-school romance.
A depressed uncle is asked to take care of his teenage nephew after the boy's father dies.
A working-class African-American father tries to raise his family in the 1950s, while coming to terms with the events of his life.